Grant Funding
| LyoDEA (grant ref. ) £217 160 Collaborative R&D November 1 2008 to October 31  2012 Funding body : Technology Strategy Board Partners: GEA, AstraZeneca, Ametek,  51ºÚÁÏÉçÇø |   | 
| BioStaRT (grant ref. ) £367 567 Collaborative R&D August 1 2014 to Jan 31 2018 Funding body : Innovate UK Partners: GEA, BlueFrog, Sanofi (Ireland) National Institute for Biological Standards and Control, 51ºÚÁÏÉçÇø |   | 
| AtlasBio (grant ref. ) £803 846 Collaborative R&D February 1 2017 to  January 31 2020 Funding body : Innovate UK Partners: GEA, BlueFrog, CPI,  OnkoLytika, IS Instruments, Ocean Optics, National Institute for Biological Standards and Control, Nottingham University, 51ºÚÁÏÉçÇø |  | 
| FastLyo (grant ref. ) £99,849 Feasibility Study February 1 2018 to  January 31 2019 Funding body : Innovate UK Partners: Biopharma Process Solutions, OnkoLytika, 51ºÚÁÏÉçÇø |  | 
 
 
Geoff Smith (School of Pharmacy) has been collaborating with various industrial partners on Innovate UK-funded collaborative R&D projects since 2008. These projects (LyoDEA, 2008-2012 and BioStart, 2014-2018) have led to the development of a novel instrumentation technology (Through Vial Impedance Spectroscopy, TVIS) for the optimization of production-cycles for freeze-dried, injectable medicines (proteins, antibiotics, vaccines etc.). Our next project grant, AtlasBio, will enable 51ºÚÁÏÉçÇø to develop a non-contact version of the TVIS technology (NC-TVIS). In parallel with TVIS, we are developing other instrumentation technology for formulation screening, including a novel freeze-drying microscope, via our FastLyo programme with Biopharma Process Solutions.